Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 3, 2020
Crime fiction in general:
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
- Crime Reads shares thirteen mysteries, crime novels and thrillers to read this October.
- Molly Odintz lists five international crime novel to read this September.
- Lesa Holstine shares some upcoming holiday cozy mysteries.
- Lisa Levy hosts a roundtable of crime fiction writers discussing the sexiest contemporary crime novels.
- Thomas H. Carry talks about the long tradition of darkly humorous crime fiction.
- Mark Pryor shares eight thrillers about Americans in Europe.
- Paul French takes a look at crime novels set in Palermo, Sicily.
- Garrick Webster shares six crime fiction authors from Iceland you should read.
- Emily Gray Tedrowe explains why most con artist stories are also about class.
- Sharon Doering talks about neuroscience in crime fiction.
- Randy Dotinga shares his six favourite true crime books set on college campuses.
- Heather Martin discusses the evolution of Jack Reacher.
- Jennifer Barraclough explains why she still admires Agatha Christie.
- Stephen Beard wonders why Agatha Christie's mysteries are still selling very well some one hundred years after they were written.
- Olivia Rutigliano profiles mystery writer Jacques Futrelle, who died aboard the Titanic, and his most famous creation, Professor August S.F.X. Van Dusen.
- Molly Odintz shares her appreciation for the works of Jim Thompson.
- For Banned Books Week, Mike Glyer shares the top ten most challenged books in US libraries.
- Alison Flood reports about the world's strangest books.
Comments on the J.K. Rowling a.k.a. Robert Galbraith transphobia controversy:
- Fifty-eight writers and artists have signed an open letter defending J.K. Rowling a.k.a. Robert Galbraith in the transphobia controversy.
- Roisin O'Connor reports about the open letter in support of J.K. Rowling and shares the full list of signatories.
- The Guardian reports that Eddie Redmayne, who plays Newton Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts movies, has defended J.K. Rowling in the transphobia controversy.
- Ekin Karasin reports that J.K. Rowling has thanked her supporters.
- Alison Flood reports that more than two hundred writers and publishers have signed a letter in support of non-binary and transpeople.
- Scott Mendelsohn shares four reasons why Warner Bros is still making a third Fantastic Beasts movie in spite of the controversy surrounding J.K. Rowling as well as stars Ezra Miller and Johnny Depp.
Film and TV:
- Dwyer Murphy lists all the crime movies and series streaming in October.
- Germain Lussier calls Tenet a frustrating, convoluted mess of a movie.
- Katie Rife calls Ava a tired assassin thriller.
- Chitra Ramaswamy calls Honour haunting television.
- Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the Danish thriller Exit Plan.
- Martin Edwards shares his thoughts about the true crime documentary The Shipman Files.
- William Hughes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Archer.
- Marion Deeds shares her thoughts on season 1 of Altered Carbon.
- K.A. Laity revisits the 1973 neo-noir film The Long Goodbye.
- Camestros Felapton revisits the 2006 action film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
- Camestros Felapton revisits the 2009 action film Fast & Furious.
- A.A. Dowd revisits the 2013 crime drama Blue Ruin.
- Stuart Heritage wonders when Jack Bauer of 24 goes to the toilet.
- Andrew Pulver wonders whether awards bait movies will survive the corona virus pandemic.
- Lucy Campbell reports that the late Chadwick Boseman gave up part of his salary for the thriller 21 Bridges to co-star Siena Miller.
- CBS reports that actor Rick Moranis, best known for his appearances in Ghostbusters, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs and Streets on Fire, was punched during an unprovoked attack in New York City.
- Japanese actress Yuko Takeuchi, best known for Ringu and Miss Sherlock, has died aged only 40.
Comments on Enola Holmes:
- Adam Roberts explains what he liked and did not like about Enola Holmes.
- Olivia Rutigliano shares her thoughts on Enola Holmes.
- Jeff Reynolds shares his thoughts on Enola Holmes.
- Guy Lodge shares his thoughts on Enola Holmes as well as his favourite Sherlock Holmes adaptations in general.
- Hector DeJean shares his thoughts on Enola Holmes and discusses the character of Eudoria Holmes with several Sherlockians.
- Laura Miller discusses feminist Sherlock Holmes spin-offs like Enola Holmes, Laurie King's Mary Russell Holmes series and Sherry Thomas' Lady Sherlock series.
- Shawn S. Lealos explains how Enola Holmes sets up a sequel.
- Christian Bone reports that Netflix is supposedly planning an Enola Holmes spin-off featuring Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes.
- Actress Millie Bobby Brown breaks down her fight scene in Enola Holmes.
- Watch a blooper reel from Enola Holmes.
Comments on season 4 of Fargo:
Comments on Ratched:
- Rebecca Nicholson interviews Sarah Paulson who plays Nurse Ratched in Ratched.
- Marah Eakin interviews Sophie Okonedo, who plays Charlotte in Ratched.
- Marah Eakin interviews Sharon Stone who plays Lenore Osgood in Ratched.
- Marah Eakin interviews Jon Jon Briones and Finn Wittrock, two of the stars of Ratched.
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Samantha Penn talks about creating characters.
- Charlie Jane Anders explains that weirdness gives her the strength to keep going with her writing.
- Dan Rockmore explains how storytellers use math without scaring people away.
- K.T. Howard shares some tips for hosting a virtual writing retreat.
- Archer Mayor reports how he researched police dogs for his latest mystery novel.
- M.L. Huie explains how he researched double agents for his latest spy novel.
- Jennie Fields explains how she researched her spy novel My Atomic Love.
- Alex Dahl talks about the inspiration for her crime novel Playdate.
- Elly Griffiths talks about the inspiration for her crime novel The Postscript Murders.
Interviews:
- The Real Book Spy interviews Sandra Brown.
- Kristen Lepionka interviews Alison Stine.
- John Valeri interviews Jenny Milchman.
- Mike Parker interviews Seraphina Nova.
- Robin Agnew interviews Kathleen Marple Kalb.
- Just Katherine interviews Lisa Unger.
- Book Marks interviews Casey Cep.
- The Real Book Spy interviews H. Ripley Rawlings IV.
- Cat Rambo interviews David Steffen.
Reviews:
- Blue Book Balloon reviews A Song for Dark Times by Ian Rankin.
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves.
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths.
- BOLO Books reviews The Island by Ben McPherson.
- Craig Sisterson reviews The Bright Lands by John Fram.
- Trey Strecker reviews When These Mountains Burn by David Joy.
- Elissa Greenwald reviews The Abstainer by Ian McGuire.
- Jon Morgan reviews Fifty-Fifty by Steve Cavanagh.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson.
- Cullen Gallagher reviews Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews She Lies Close by Sharon Doering.
- Maggie Boyd reviews And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall.
- Katrina Niidas Holm reviews Skin Deep by Sung J. Woo.
- Jean Gazis reviews Three Perfect Liars by Heidi Perks.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Justice, Gone by N. Lombardi Jr.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Assault By Fire by H. Ripley Rawlings IV.
- Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The Fox by Sólveig Pálsdóttir, translated by Quentin Bates.
- Aunt Agatha's reviews The Red Horse by James R. Benn.
- M. John Harrison reviews The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton.
- Janet Webb reviews A Christmas Carol Murder by Heather Redmond.
- Robin Agnew reviews The Last Curtain Call by Juliet Blackwell.
- Lesa Holstine reviews A Case of Cat and Mouse by Sofie Kelly.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Three Treats Too Many by Debra H. Goldstein and tries a recipe from the book.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Seven, edited by Martin Rosenstock.
- Lara Feigel reviews Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre.
- B.V. Lawson reviews Detective Fiction by Charles J. Rzepka.
Classics reviews:
- Only Detect revisits the 1929 Continental Op hardboiled detective novel The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1951 Lew Archer detective novel The Way Some People Die by Ross Macdonald.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1953 paranormal mystery Under the Influence by Geoffrey Kerr.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1956 southern gothic crime novel The Pace That Kills by William Fuller.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1960 crime novel Man Bait by Jack Liston a.k.a. Ralph Maloney.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1962 sleaze crime novel Dial M for Man by Orrie Hitt.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1968 adventure novel A Great Day for Dying by Jack Dillon.
Con reports:
- All panels of the virtual Bloody Scotland crime fiction festival are now available to watch online
- Ayo Onatade shares some responses to the virtual Bloody Scotland festival.
- Ruth Comerford reports that CrimeCon and the publisher Bonnier are planning a true crime weekend in London, UK, in the summer of 2021.
Research:
- Tyler Maroney takes a look into the secret world of private investigators.
- Jean Campbell reports about the case of Gene Simmons who murdered fourteen family members and two other people (and who raped and impregnated his teenaged daughter, too) on Christmas 1987.
- Dylan Taylor-Lehman talks about organised thefts and truck hijacking on US highways.
- Cora Buhlert reports about rioting at two Rolling Stones concerts and the Mephisto freedom of the art court case in West Germany in 1965.
- Chloe Hooper reports about a wildfire arson investigation in Australia.
- Jonathan Schneer talks about the assassinations and assasination attempts that changed the course of the Russian Revolution.
- Michael Cannell talks about five New York gangster nightclubs of the Prohibition era.
- Craig Johnson discusses the strange history of the 1885 painting "Custer’s Last Fight", the original of which disappeared, even though reproductions can be found in bars all over the US.
- Radio.com reports that a man in Utah has stolen a truck to go and meet aliens, who failed to appear.
Free online fiction:
- "Wild Tales" by Barb Lundy in Shotgun Honey.
- "An Algorithm for Murder" by Michael A. Raithel in Shotgun Honey.
- "Mush-Mouth James by Karl Spaeth in Shotgun Honey.
- "A Rotten Plan" by Morgan Boyd in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "A Bachelor's Guide to Everything" by John Patrick Robbins in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Dominant Hand" by Susan Hammerman at Akashic Books.
- "El Cerrito" by Ron Riekki at Akashic Books.
- "Shot Three Times" by Terry Dawley in The Five-Two.
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